This week's Song of the Week is the spiteful Sick Of Me, originally released as a b-side in 1997 but better knows as track 10 on 2002's b-side compilation album, Shenanigans. Sick Of Me is an argument in musical form - right from the opening seconds, the song gives off a great feeling of frustration and annoyance- Billie's voice is at its snotty best and the opening, accusatory line 'why can't you just admit it, you've had it, you're sick of me' really sets off the vibe of the whole song. Listening to the lyrics, it's pretty clear that Sick Of Me is about a failing, or at least dysfunctional relationship. The two people in the argument are obviously in the middle of some on-going fighting, and the narrator is just ranting a list of the reasons of why the other person is so sick of him. At the same time though, there's also a fearful element amongst the spite, when he asks 'am I losing you?' - he says that their efforts to keep on trying to save their relationship is 'a waste'.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's any recordings out there of this song being played live, so we'll have to just settle with the album version, close our eyes, jump around, and imagine we're seeing it live together.


(video credit: NoPride6)

Lyrics to the song can be found here, and this is Sick Of Me's Song of the Week thread. Feel free to stop by and post your opinion, or nominate next week's song.